اعتماد المغردين الإعلاميين على معلومات توتير و تقييمهم لمدى مصداقيتها

Abstract EN

The concerns of the study focused on recognizing the dealing of Saudi media workers- twitter users with Twitter, and their evaluation of credibility of its information.

429 media workers known as users of Twitter participated in the study, whereas they represent different media specializations: Radio, TV, and papers and electronic newspapers, and public relations.

Media men represented 81% while media women represented 19%, who assume executive and supervisory positions, and relate to the media work as full timers or cooperators with accepted relative balance between both.

The most important features of this study results in connection with the media workers' use of Twitter and the reliance upon it, are as follows: •Daily heavy use of Twitter, with the average of (2-4) hours and above for about 70% of the sample.

•There is a case of respondents' reaction with Twitter.

Out of their weekly tweets with the average of (30-and more than 41) tweets, includes about 75% of media men.

•Total number of tweets of the sample individuals with less than (5000) tweets is 43%.

As for those who exceed that average, they represent 57%.

•Total number of those who are followed by less than (5000) within the limit is 55%, and those who exceed that number of followers, their percentage is 45%.

The results of the study included the answer to questions of the general study, as reflected by the following aspects: Media workers who uses twitter dealing with Twitter information.

•Dealing with general sources.

•Sources (accounts) of Twitter information.

•Privileges of Twitter information.

- Media workers' – twitter users' - opinion about the credibly of Twitter information: •Applying the most important elements of media credibility on the use of Twitter information.

•The factors negatively affecting the credibility of Twitter information.

•Criteria of judging the credibility of Twitter information